That was the last box to be ticked and STORME was the last one standing. The reviews didn't disappoint and addressed most concerns with Dicor. It definitely gave me hope for something good that was coming.
TATA SAFARI STORME VX FULL
This is where I owe a lot (perhaps TML too) to our forum that kept articles and reviews about STORME coming in full flow. Most friends and family advised against Dicor for all its known issues and no one was optimistic about the upcoming new avatar STORME either. XUV5oo was next to go - just didn't belong behind the wheels.Īnd finally there were two - Fortuner and Safari. Took test drive of Fortuner, XUV5oo and DICOR – more details on this covered in 'Tata Safari Storme - Road Test Review' post #696. Captiva was next - primarily because of problems with my first car that was American.
Honda and Renault were the first to go even without test drive - did not quality as SUV. The SUV market offered lot more choices, with Toyota, Mahindra, Renault, Honda, and Chevrolet offering options. This is when the fun and work started together. Without getting into the details of negotiation that went on for a couple of months, we agreed to keep the sedan and also buy a new SUV. No change in preferences still - wife needs a sedan and sedan only and I wanted my SUV. Settled for Honda City ZX in 2006 - no regrets with this one though.Īnother 100000+ kms of happy ownership with Honda City, it was time again for the next car somewhere in mid 2012. No luck this time also - wife wanted a sedan and sedan only. By now, SIERRA is done and dusted and SAFARI seemed to be the next gen SIERRA. The next opportunity to think of a new car came in late 2005 when the Ford IKON had done over 110000+ kms and was starting to give frequent problems. (That I regretted this decision for long is a different discussion altogether) Tough call to make - but decided to take the advice of my friends and well wishers and settled for a sedan. I'd have to work overtime just to keep it running is what people said. Not sure if Sierra was still under production then, but there was not a single person that concurred with my thought of going for it, new or pre-owned. So, the car was only a big wish.įast forward to 2000, by when I had managed to finish degree, find a job, buy my dream bike YAMAHA RX100 and had the means to finally think of buying a car. Of course, owning a bike itself was beyond my means. There was something so stylish about that scene and particularly the parked car that got etched in my memory very deeply.
TATA SAFARI STORME VX MOVIE
The first time a car made me think 'I want to have that one day' was in 1994 while watching the movie KADHALAN (Hum Se Hai Muqabla in Hindi) - the scene where the antagonist (Raghuvaran) has parked his TATA SIERRA by the road, turns his head to look at the camera.
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